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On Time
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
In Milton's Minor Poems
“On Shakespear 1630” typifies much of Milton’s poetry. By some miracle never yet explained, at age 24 he managed to get a 16-line encomium i…
Vignettes
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Clark Ashton Smith
In Ebony and Crystal
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
Preface
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Edmund Spenser
In Amoretti and Epithalamion
"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…
Part 2
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Edmund Spenser
In Four Hymns
Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…
Preface
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
This final volume of detective stories was Doyle’s effort to put his most famous creation behind him at long last. It includes a variety of …
Thomas Arnold
Read by Luke Sartor
Elbert Hubbard
In Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Section 1: Preface
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Robert Herrick
In A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick had been apprenticed to a goldsmith before entering holy orders. This early training has been credited with influencing his m…
Patrick Henry, Part 2
Read by Cbteddy
Elbert Hubbard
In Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Rutherford McDowell
Read by Kirk Thomas
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
Elias Thomas
Read by Larry Wilson
Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Of Education
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
A well educated population is the cornerstone of a strong society. On the personal level, education contributes to virtue and self-knowledge…
Part 4
Read by Ben Tucker
Thomas L. Sherred
In Cue for Quiet
After too many years, T. L. Sherred returns with a story that gets our SPACE SPECIAL rating. It's the story of a man with a headache—who fou…
4 - Paradise Regain'd, Book 4
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
In Paradise Regain'd (version 2)
Having been publicly acknowledged as God's "beloved Son," Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Mes…
Poems 1-30
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Sir Philip Sidney
In Astrophel and Stella
Sonnet sequences, which these poems by Sidney made very popular in the Elizabethan age, reflected the Medieval motif of courtly love, whereb…
Words and Music
Read by Matt Braymiller
Thomas Thursday
In Short Story Collection Vol. 060
LibriVox readers bring you 20 short stories in various genres by authors including Edna Ferber, Charlotte Brontë, Stephan Crane, W. Som…
Part 2, Chapters 14-17
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Rose Macaulay
In The Shadow Flies
The title of the original, British release of this novel was They Were Defeated, referring, among other matters, to the English Civil War, 1…
By Way of Introduction
Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
Frank W. Boreham
In Mushrooms on the Moor
A series of essays exhorting us with wit and humor to retain our childlike sense of wonder and delight in the world that God has made. A del…
The Life of THOMAS SMITH, a Highwayman
Read by Linda Johnson
Arthur L. Hayward
In Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for…
This is the second volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled …
Introduction
Read by Arie
Charles Swain Thomas
In Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series
This book is composed of 24 short stories, published in 1918 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, and is the second collection of "modern sho…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard visits the homes of authors, politicians, poets, philosophers and other prestigious people. If they are still living he speak…